oh Baby!

I'm not sure if it's the pregnancy that's making me look over the kids baby pictures  lately,  but I've realized 2 things. I have far less pictures of Parker as a baby( even though I vowed this would never happen) and I have less of those photos scrapped. I think I can forgive myself, it's better than having twelve albums filled with layouts about his every move from birth to date. I've got some important things covered, and glimpses of our everyday life, and all I want the kids to understand when they look back on their albums is how much I cherished them and our time together.

Here's a layout I created for this week's challenge at Practical Scrappers. We were asked to use Acrylic, Transparencies or Vellum. As usual, I took the opportunity to unload more than a few items from my stash. I must admit I love the resulting page. It's great for me to "turn off" the colour for a change and just focus on the layout.

I know the elephants may seem a bit odd, but it makes more sense if you know that Parker loves them.

Materials:

Cardstock: Bazzill Basics Paper

PP: Basic Grey

Acrylic Letters: Fancy Pants, altered with White Staz-On Ink

Flourishes: Bo Bunny, altered with text stamp from Sandy Lion, White and Black Staz-On Ink

Canvas Flowers: Jillibean Soup, with added Glimmer Mist

Trim: Webster's Pages

Acrylic accents: Tim Holtz Fragments

Pearls: Basic Grey, Dollarama

Pen: Staedlater Triplus fineliner

Butterfly Stamps: Hampton Art, stamped on transparency sheet with Staz-On 

Glitter: Ranger Stickles

Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist

Elephant Punch: Martha Stewart